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Helping our Grandson deal with suicide
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Dec 05, 2018, 09:30 AM
Buffy01
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Skeezyks
Thank you for sharing this tragic story here on PC. Personally I think the obvious recommendation here is to have your grandson seen by a child psychologist or mental health therapist who has expertise in working with children. In the meantime, here are links to 9 articles, from PsychCentral's archives, that hopefully may be of some help. These are not going to address your grandson's situation directly. But, hopefully, the information in them can be helpful in understanding the dynamics of the situation your grandson is in & in figuring out how to address these tragic circumstances:
How to Support a Child when a Parent Suicides | Unshakeable Calm
An Open Letter to Any Child Who Lost a Parent to Suicide
Suicide: Helping Survivors Cope
Should I Talk to My Child about Suicide?
What Parents Need to Know about Childhood Depression
Child Depression and Adolescent Depression
https://psychcentral.com/lib/depress...-and-children/
https://psychcentral.com/lib/depress...ts-caregivers/
https://psychcentral.com/blog/helpin...ming-behavior/
My best wishes to you & your family...
P.S. Here's a link to another series of articles I just came upon, in PC's archives, on the subject of talking to your child about the loss of a loved one:
https://psychcentral.com/lib/talking...f-a-loved-one/
That is great advice! I wish that I had thought about looking for information like this when I lost my brother in law
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